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William Gavin, Attorney At Law

Bill Gavin was born in East St. Louis, Illinois in 1955, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from St. Louis University in 1977. He went on to complete his Doctor of Jurisprudence and graduated cum laude from the St. Louis University School of Law in 1980, where he was a member of the honorary scholastic society, Order of the Woolsack, and a staff member of the St. Louis University Law Review.

He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1980, the Missouri in 1982, the Tennessee bar in 2009, and the Arkansas bar in 2012. He is also admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, and the Southern District of Indiana.

As a result of his experience in railroad occupational disease claims, Bill Gavin has represented railroad workers in litigation in the courts of Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Colorado, Arkansas, Kentucky, California, Georgia, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, and Mississippi. This litigation has included traumatic injury claims and occupational disease claims.

Personal injury attorney Bill Gavin is currently a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, Missouri Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Arkansas Bar Association, American Association for Justice (AAJ), Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and The Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Clair County Bar Association from 1984 to 1985.

Accomplishments of William Gavin

William Gavin is active in community charitable organizations. He has been a volunteer in the YMCA of Southwest Illinois and the Gateway Region YMCA since the 1970s, holding the following positions:

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gateway Region YMCA, March 31, 2017-Present.

Chairman of Board of Directors of the YMCA of Southwest Illinois,1990-1995 2012-15.

Mr. Gavin also served as Mid America Field Representative from the St. Louis Cluster of YMCAs to the Mid America Field Committee of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the USA; Member of Illinois Alliance of YMCAs and Delegate, YMCA of the USA National Assembly 2003-04.

Mr. Gavin received the Service to Youth Awards in 1976, 1986, 1995 and 2015. The Service to Youth Award was re-titled as the Bill Gavin Service to Youth Award in 2015, Mr. Gavin was also named 2015 Illinois State Alliance of YMCAs volunteer of the year. He received the YMCA Award of Excellence in 2008, and was the Recipient of the YMCA Lowell Linnes Award in 2000, a national award recognizing volunteerism.

As part of his YMCA volunteer work, Bill Gavin has made the following YMCA presentations:

Dialogue on Mission and Purpose to the Illini and Town and Country YMCA clusters on April 30, 1999 and May 3, 1999 in Bloomington and Chicago, Illinois respectively.